2006 Bowhunt For Wild Hogs @ Texas "S"
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July 6 - Day #2, Part #3

AFTERNOON:  Hogs Everywhere We Go ...
Rick and I were back in Merle's hog woods at 2:30 and went to the nearest pond. A few hogs were walking along the far edge of the water and I stalked toward them. But they winded me and took off. 

On the way to check some blow downs Rick stopped, nodded his head and pointed at the area in the picture below. Can you find the hog?

As you see in these two pics, hogs don't require much cover to hide themselves when they bed down. Wild hogs sleep very soundly too, which is about their only weakness. Well, this sleeping beauty was another young hog and we slipped quietly away and let it get some much needed beauty sleep.

In the east meets west fence corner we glassed a hog laying in mud, right in the corner of the fence. By putting some trees between me and them, I began working my way toward the corner. 

A fat tree near them kept me hidden and I made good time getting closer. 

When I reached the fat tree I realized that 3 hogs were in the corner! They were all laying on one another like a stack of ham pancakes.

I signaled Rick and he took a pic of the three hog pancake.

These three wild porkers were not what I was looking for either. I already had a tender BBQ pig and wanted a more mature wild boar this time. So, once again, we quietly slipped away without disturbing the sleeping hogs.

Figuring out where to go next was not a problem, we struck a direct course for the closest blow downs, which were just inside the woods' edge. We saw a group of hogs right away.

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